Mask the wall on woodchip
In the event that you want to paint accents of color on your woodchip wallpaper, you have to be very precise and careful. That means you need to mask off your wall before painting.
What you need:
- pencil
- Masking tape
- possibly wall laser
- Base color
- Acrylic sealant
- plaster
Mask off the desired area of the wall
If you have papered your wall with woodchip and now want to paint the wall with different patterns, you must first mask off the areas you want.
- In order to be able to mask off the area that you need for your pattern, you must first use a wall laser to cover the Aim at the desired areas and then use a pencil to mark certain corner points on the woodchip wallpaper to mark.
- Then connect the recorded corner points with each other by using the painter's tape between the points like this Glue on so that the dots are connected to each other and your desired motif or the correct area is limited.
- Especially with strips, it is very important that you stick the masking tape straight onto the wall. For this reason, you should measure with a spirit level whether the masking tape was really properly glued. If this is not the case, you should correct this.
Seal the unevenness of the woodchip
After you have masked the desired area with masking tape, you now have to level out the unevenness of the woodchip wallpaper.
Attach the woodchip wallpaper correctly
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- So after the To brush If straight lines are the result, you have to fill the gaps between the woodchip wallpaper and the masking tape. To do this, you can, for example, first coat the masking tape with the base color so that the wall paint flows into the gaps and thus fills them. You can only paint over the surface with another color when the base color has dried.
- Instead of painting over the masking tape with base color, you can also use acrylic sealant. To do this, put on thin disposable gloves and put some acrylic mass on one of your fingers. Then brush a very thin layer of acrylic over the edges of the masking tape and then let it dry. Once dry, you can then start painting.
- Another option is to seal the area with a thin layer of plaster of paris. With this variant, too, you first have to wait for the plaster to dry before you can paint.
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